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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Utz say is the same word as porcelain?
(a) Poor.
(b) Pork.
(c) Porsche.
(d) Porch.

2. What does the boy offer Utz to eat?
(a) A baguette.
(b) A chicken leg.
(c) A duck breast.
(d) A tin of olives.

3. What was Bottger's grandfather's occupation?
(a) Blacksmith.
(b) Goldsmith.
(c) Silversmith.
(d) Cobbler.

4. Who sends the narrator a card to inform him of Utz's death?
(a) Marta.
(b) Jan.
(c) Orlik.
(d) Vaclav.

5. Why does Utz say he had his feet on both sides of the iron curtain?
(a) He had investments in the West.
(b) He had family in West.
(c) He had a government job.
(d) He was a pilot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Marta hide the hare or peasant under to get past the police?

2. What famous event is almost a year away?

3. What does Utz say people once believed silver turned into?

4. What does porcella mean in Italian?

5. What town would Utz stop at on the way back from Prague?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Marco Polo call Cowrie beads porcelain shells?

2. What does the narrator see in Utz's bedroom?

3. How did Bottger allow Augustus the strong to open the first commercial porcelain factory in 1710?

4. Why is Marta devoted to Utz?

5. What does Utz remember about the mushroom season?

6. Describe Utz's bathrobe.

7. What does Utz remember about Marta?

8. What did Utz fantacize would happen on his trip?

9. How does Utz react when the narrator asks to see his bathroom?

10. Why does Utz say he took up alchemical studies?

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